His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.

But to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for human beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.

If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.

Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

`` I mean '', I went on ruthlessly, `` when he's not talking about you or himself or the wonders of love, is he interesting??

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

A fellow came up to me, a Senator, I don't have to tell you his name, and he told me, ' I love the President like a brother, but God damn it, he's crucifying me.

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

His other significant credits include Broadway appearances in Carousel, First Impressions, and The Deputy ; off-Broadway appearances in Winkelberg, The Threepenny Opera, Livin ' the Life, and The Father ; L ' Histoire du Soldat at New York City Opera ; and national tours of The Rainmaker ( with future All My Children co-star Frances Heflin ), The King and I, Funny Girl, and The Threepenny Opera.

As Threepenny Opera continued and eventually concluded its historic run, Ms. Lortel produced many other plays, including Jean Genet's The Balcony in 1960, which won the Village Voice's Obie Award for best foreign play, Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot ( a production starring James Earl Jones which launched Fugard's ' American career '), Christopher Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners, Sean O ' Casey's plays I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway, and Cock-A-Doodle-Dandy, Charles Morgan's The River Line with Sada Thompson, Beatrice Straight and Peter Cookson, and Tom Cole's Medal of Honor Rag.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

In 1847, I Lombardi, which was revised and renamed Jérusalem, was produced by the Paris Opera.

Bucharest is also home to the Romanian National Opera, as well as the I. L.

Improvements to the neighbourhood included the Toulon Opera, the place de la Liberté, the Grand Hôtel, the Gardens of Alexander I, the Chalucet Hospital, the palais de Justice, the train station, and the building now occupied by Galeries Lafayette, among others.

*" Ponchielli's Opera " I promessi sposi "" The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 21, no.

After serving in the navy in World War I, Carte decided to bring the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company back to London in first-rate style.

There are 265 Listed Buildings in the borough of which 254 are Grade II, 10 are Grade II * and 1 is Grade I which is Point Royal, a tower block built in the early 1960s by Philip Dowson and Derek Sugden of Arup Associates the company responsible for the design of the Sydney Opera House.

The Switch Doctor is the Earth's resident Octave Doctor, who lives near Banana Ananda's cave, in a " potheadquarters " called the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet ( C. O. I. T.

Written for a radio production by RAI in 1950, his short opera, I due timidi ( The Two Timid Ones ), was presented by the Santa Fe Opera as part of their pre-season " One-Hour Opera " program in May / June 2008.

The same four singers had premiered Bellini's, I puritani at the Italian Opera in Paris in 1835.

Stanley Sadie, " Opera: I.

In the follow-up, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, the League's encounter with Les Hommes is halted once Fantômas detonates a bomb which destroys the Opera Garnier, after saying in unaccented English, " I win ".

" In The Complete Book of Light Opera, Mark Lubbock adds, " After Oklahoma !, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific.

But I did regret very much that I was forced to find a new meeting place for the Reichstag and, not being able to find one, I had to give up my Kroll Opera House … for that purpose.

On April 26, 1910 the Met bought the Philadelphia Opera House from Oscar Hammerstein I.

To provide a home for its regular Tuesday night performances in Philadelphia, the Met purchased an opera house originally built in 1908 by Oscar Hammerstein I, the Philadelphia Opera House at North Broad and Poplar Streets.

`` I felt that I must devote myself to the ' outside ' world ''.

as I understand it, Mr. Hammarskjold wanted outside advice.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe.

Andy told him, `` Bake, I wish you'd talk to Skolman, see if some kind of p. a. system can be rigged up outside.

Although still aware of a great light and glow of warmth in the Book, I stood outside shivering in the cold.

There was no doubt in my mind that if I crossed him, mobs would appear outside our windows shouting `` Paredon!!

Via was in the parking lot when I went outside.

I mentioned it to Chris one stifling hot night, when I had slipped outside for a breath of fresh air.

The boys were already waiting in the corridor outside my office when I got to Fairview.

We'd been standing right outside Miss Bancroft's door and as I went to turn the knob to enter, I was surprised to find that the door was slightly ajar.

`` I feel I must answer the question '', he said, `` since the onus later, if any, should fall on me -- I don't relish recriminations spread broadcast outside my family.

`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.

`` All I know is that you were outside the bubbles last night, and you were the only sentient being who came in or out of our alarm web.

I was not sure the magic worked outside the church walls ... in the open air of Mississippi.

De Palma describes the sequence as a constant invocation of Brechtian distanciation: “ First of all, I am interested in the medium of film itself, and I am constantly standing outside and making people aware that they are always watching a film.

I cannot conceive of my destiny separate from Russia, or outside it.